Feeling oh-so gloomy today...

Ever have one of those days that you really wish you could crawl back into bed and hide from the rest of the world? Today is one of those days for me... and then some.

I stayed home sick yesterday and am not feeling a whole heckuva lot better today, but came in to work because a) I hate being out sick and b) we were having a big systems launch today. I should have KNOWN today was going to be a bad day when on my way to the train station random electrical transformers started to explode along side me as I was driving! Nope - not kidding - huge blue-white flashes of light on top of the poles next to the street I was driving on! Then I noticed the car starting to shake and rattle and the "brake" light came on just as I was getting off the highway. I got off the train in Chicago to see three police squad cars at the site of a bad taxi accident. And yes, this was all before I reached the office!

The story doesn't get much better. I came in to systems being down, not working, and a bunch of very cranky people. I then find out that the Product Manager who f'ed this whole launch up has posted my teams' contact information for problems with HIS PRODUCT, which as I have already overstated, DOESN'T WORK! Come to find out that these issues have now impacted my other team, who have NOTHING to do with this worthless piece of technology, and I have seen the Product Manager strutting back and forth from Jamba Juice in an effort to appease the developers, but has not offered so much as an apology to my team who is directly impacted by his, shall we say, idiocy??? Oh yeah - and we're only halfway through the day. I can hardly wait for this afternoon.

I really need to go back to bed.

Yes, another redesign!

To say I get bored easily would be an understatement, as you can probably tell by all my ramblings. Anyway, as much as I liked the last look of the blog, it still wasn't what I envisioned, so I perused a number of different blogs in Blogger to get an idea of what I could do to spruce mine up and voila! I found it! Welcome to the new and improved "Somedays and Mondays" (well, new and improved in my mind anyway!).

Hope you like it!

And yes, I am still NOT-patiently awaiting my travel dates for St. Petersburg. On the plus side, though, I did officially book my Disney Institute class and the travel agent is making my flight arrangements as I type! Look out Mickey, here I come! :)

Greetings from sunny California...

I'm writing from my business trip to sunny California, and boy do I mean sunny! :) Yesterday it was around 92 degrees outside and apparently this is "cool" for this time of year out here. I love the heat and the sun so this is truly not bothering me, but apparently I got into something that was shellfish-based since I've been out here and am now dealing with a raging case of hives. Uh yeah, NOT so pretty or fun to deal with when you are supposed to be schmoozing people, and car dealers and sales reps at that. Thank GOD for bangs as the worst of it is all over my forehead which is puzzling and disturbing to say the least. As much as I am enjoying this trip (yep - I said it, I'm kinda having fun and this is for WORK!) I really wish I were traveling for other purposes.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about my little girl in Russia and pray for an early trip one so I can go and meet her, hug her, and start lovin' on her - as she deserves. Selfishly I also want to rush over there and start the process so something can't happen and someone else decides to adopt her. I'll admit that I have already started putting the nursery together and am just waiting on the crib to truly call it almost complete. I will also admit that I've had fun picking out a few outfits to have in the closet for her and am crossing my fingers that I have guesstimated correctly on what size she will be when she comes home. Probably not the wisest thing to do, but something I am compelled to do as it really makes me feel as if I'm doing something to move this process along.

Gotta dash off to breakfast and then a whirlwind day of visiting dealerships and meeting with executives at the Fresno Bee to review the progress on my pet project right now. Wish me luck! :)